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Dirk Magnum
FinFleet Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.11.13 01:34:00 -
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It's the day before the Trinity launch and the introduction of heavy dictors. CCP decides to reconsider the use of scram bubbles in low sec, due to a real or perceived risk of industrialists being unable to ever move anything through those systems again. Whining from heavy dictor pilots prevents a mobile disruptor bubble nerf and gate camping in low sec becomes commonplace. Industrial pilots begin fitting warp core stabilizers instead of cargo expanders, and in congress with Warp to Zero survive the gate camps for a time. Eventually though attrition takes its toll and all the industrials inside of low sec are killed. Nobody gathers the minerals to build more because everyone knows that a mining op in low sec is a suicide pact. Trade corps try to fly more industrial ships in from high sec but they are stopped by the scram bubbles and set upon by instalocking ceptors who put extra scram points and webs on the helpless industrial ship.
Jump freighters try to fill the void in low sec trade but soon they are all hunted down at their cyno points and sapped of all capacitor strength by neut gangs. Unable to warp or cyno out, their cargo is fought over by increasingly desperate pirate corps who are by now running short of supplies and unable to pay the exhorbitant prices demanded on the ever more anemic low sec market. Trade corps refuse to commit any more resources to low sec systems and no more items from Empire get put up on the low sec market ever. Everyone with negative sec standing must rat until they have a high enough status to buy things in high sec. They get used to the carebear lifestyle and decide to stick around running level 4's in The Forge since there are no more targets in low sec. Well, no targets except for a few last holdouts roaming around in heavy dictor gangs. In time even they leave, and no pilot ever goes into low sec again. Everyone who goes into 0.0 will do so through the handful of 0.5+ sec systems with gates to 0.0. Forum whining about this sorry state of affairs reaches critical mass. One day pilots will attempt to view the forums only to discover that they have collapsed under the weight of complaint posts.
CCP attempts a system upgrade but it takes months to implement. Forum posters migrate to Scrapheap Challenge and it too goes offline. They go to Battleclinic and again the sheer volume of whine posts destroys the server. Eventually Goonfleet.com's forum offers the ability for anyone to post, for a price, but the desire to whine is so great that this price is paid without question by thousands of pilots. When the Goon forums go down Somethingawful itself offers sanctuary, but to no avail. As every forum and message board on the internet is shut down by Eve-related whining Lowtax and Remedial ride off together to parts unknown and are never heard from again. Al Gore makes an award winning documentary about how a dedicated group of whiners were capable of causing so much pain for so many across his beloved invention, the internet. CCP's leadership orders immediate, indefinite downtime of Tranquility, SiSi, and even the secret dev server where Hellmar and Eris fly Jove ships in beautifully choreographed formations to the music of Jefferson Starship. Developer misconduct on behalf of major alliances ensures this downtime never happens, and the cascade of entropy continues unabated.
Pilots no longer identify with the traditional Eve empires and the roleplaying community has redefined itself into just two separate power blocs: residents of high sec and residents of nullsec. High sec is invaded by the nullsec pilots and the flood of Concord reinforcements lags out every high sec system. Eve is renamed Zero Sec Online and all men shall be known as Bob. The women too shall be known as Bob and there will be much lamentation.
And then -then- mothership pilots will regret having sold their ships before the Trinity launch. I GUARANTEE IT!
This post is dedicated to Miz Cenuij's smartbombs.
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techzer0
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.11.13 01:39:00 -
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Make friends with the locals in lowsec and mine away... Though your post is a very well written and cynical view of the future, it may be right in a way...
Oh wait... this is a BoB thread... gaaa (i almost feel like i've been rick roll'd) ____________________ Hi. I'm not an alt :) |
Tarminic
Forsaken Resistance
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Posted - 2007.11.13 01:40:00 -
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/me buys researched WCS BPOs ---------------- Tarminic - 29 Million SP in pink Forum Warfare |
Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.11.13 01:44:00 -
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Originally by: techzer0 Make friends with the locals in lowsec and mine away... Though your post is a very well written and cynical view of the future, it may be right in a way...
Oh wait... this is a BoB thread... gaaa (i almost feel like i've been rick roll'd)
say what?
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Devian 666
Igneus Auctorita GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.11.13 01:54:00 -
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I endorse your vision of the future.
Has anyone confirmed that hictors can use aoe warp jamming in low sec?
Quote: "... I doubt they would have the skillpoints and cap fleet to take and make soverignty over a large established alliance like BoB."
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Arana Tellen
Gallente The Blackguard Wolves Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.11.13 02:37:00 -
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WTB: Heavy dictor bubble that can be activated in low sec. ---------------------------------
Thorax type R&R. (Ribbed and R rated) |
Jagdgewehr
Layered Orbital Logistics and Industrial Supply
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Posted - 2007.11.13 03:48:00 -
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Originally by: Arana Tellen WTB: Heavy dictor bubble that can be activated in low sec.
It's Dev confirmed. The heavy warp bubble the HICs/Hactors use can have a script loaded that makes it into a focused, super-strength warp disruptor. At least that form of it will be usable in lowsec, while the bubble form probably will not judging by comments.
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Phantom Slave
Amarr Mozzaki United
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Posted - 2007.11.13 05:51:00 -
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Bubble script = 0.0
'beam' script = lowsec ____________________
Changes on Sisi are NOT the end of the world. Wait until Rev III/Trinity is released before drawing conclusions. |
Alan Bell
Gallente Shiva Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2007.11.13 07:43:00 -
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just a random question... are the heavy dictor bubbles only 1 strength?
Baka! |
Kessiaan
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Posted - 2007.11.13 08:20:00 -
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Originally by: Dirk Magnum It's the day before the Trinity launch and the introduction of heavy dictors. CCP decides to reconsider the use of scram bubbles in low sec, due to a real or perceived risk of industrialists being unable to ever move anything through those systems again.
You think there's no targets in lowsec now? Just wait until it becomes impossible to reliably run the gates without a scout / blob ----- My in Eve Profile |
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Kazuma Saruwatari
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Posted - 2007.11.13 08:33:00 -
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OP's post delivers -
Odd Pod Out, a blog of EVE Online |
MOS DEF
0utbreak
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Posted - 2007.11.13 08:38:00 -
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Originally by: Alan Bell just a random question... are the heavy dictor bubbles only 1 strength?
It was in the decription when i was on sisi but a dev just replied somewhere in Game Dev forum that it is a dictor bubble just like from a regular dictor but moving with the ship.
The script for the lowsec disruptor is infinite strengh too - he also confirmed that. Combined with remote sensor boosting low sec became much much more scary then it ever was because of those few smartbomb mothership muppets. Fix one thing, break 2. At least CCP is consistant.
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Carniflex
Caldari Fallout Research Fallout Project
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Posted - 2007.11.13 08:59:00 -
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Well ... I don't think that low sec would turn into totally unacsessible, but if heavy dictor bubbles work in low sec (as some rumours claim it to be) then it sure shall be a lot scarier place than it used to be.
I sure would stop taking shortcuts thru that in my Viator to save few jumps.
It would be just like 0.0 just with crappier rewards and gate sentries. And yeah, I don't take shortcuts thru 0.0 either to save 'few jumps' unless I actually need to go there.
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